True Places Never Are by Cate Mcgowan

True Places Never Are by Cate Mcgowan

In her debut collection, winner of the 2014 Moon City Short Fiction Award, Cate McGowan introduces us to a passenger manifest, an assortment of characters voyaging through loss and salvation. The book's title borrows from Melville's Moby Dick: ""It is not down on any map; true places never are."" McGowan's characters are off the chart; they venture into wondrous worlds as knotty and distressing as the places they aim to leave. With poetic prose and a flashlight pointed at the dark spots in her characters' souls, McGowan gives us nineteen tales located in a colony of laundromats and the Louvre; of mule pulls and boxing rings; of Georgia red clay and city cobblestones. Populating these worlds is an unusual hodgepodge of everyman--children, men, and women who inhabit different eras and countries, all seeking deliverance. They occupy the aftermath of tragedy. True places are indeed hard to find in this collection, yet hope is every person's traveling companion. In True Places Never Are, McGowan reminds us redemption is not that far away. This book will take you to places you never dreamed of going and aren't quite sure you want to stay, but you won't regret the journey.

Cate McGowan, a Georgia native, has published fiction in Glimmer Train, Snake Nation Review, The Louisville Review, The GSU Review, and Moon City Review, among other journals. She's lived in New York City, Upstate New York, Missouri, Scotland, and various other points on the map. She now lives in Central Florida and teaches writing at Valencia College.

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ISBN 13	9780913785584
ISBN 10	091378558X
Titel	True Places Never Are
Autor	Cate Mcgowan
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Moon City Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2015-05-30
Seitenanzahl	205
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.